Records of the Mayor of Salgótarján

A broad selection of the Holocaust-related records is available at the USHMMA (Selected Records of the Holocaust in Nógrád County, Hungary, 1934‐1948; RG‐68.109M) The collection holds the records of the Mayor, the head of the administration of the town of Salgótarján between 1922 and 1950. Records related to the Holocaust include, but not limited to the following topics: cases of trade licences and permits, citizenship and naturalization cases, disenfranchisement of Jewish citizens, petitions for granting the right to vote, records concerning the implementation of the anti-Jewish laws as well as instances of bureaucratic and illegal antisemitic measures, building permits, internal matters of Jewish communities, ban on Zionist organizations, Jewish military labour service, registration and nationalization of Jewish landholdings, petitions of non-Jews for Jewish apartments, shops and property, ghettoization, registration, expropriation and distribution of Jewish property, appointments of non-Jewish wardens and guardians to manage former Jewish shops, workshops and other businesses, inventories of Jewish shops and apartments, allocation of Jewish apartments to non-Jews, and requests for apartments, shops and other assets confiscated from Jews. Letter of support from an academic institution is required Hungarian data protection laws apply https://lnyr.eleveltar.hu/mnlquery/archivplansuche.aspx?ID=634350 Letter of support from an academic institution is required Hungarian data protection laws and reproduction fees apply Mayor (polgármester) was the leading official of the towns and cities in Hungary. The mayor was elected by the Municipal Committee and his powers were regulated by the statutes created by the Committee as well as by Act XXI of 1886 (276. §.) The scope of authority of the Mayor was significantly broadened by Act XXX of 1930, which handed over most of the functions of the City Council to the Mayor’s Office. The Mayor’s Office included several departments according to its main administrative and economic functions.